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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I really like kikinovak's explanation. The tools are human readable, the system (and ecosystem) are stable and the defaults are very sane. I like arch am gentoo to, but setting up a new system takes a lot of tinker just to get things going, but with Slackware I only have to change the things I need customized because I can trust the defaults. Beyond that making the changes (or undoing bad ones) is simple because of all that transparency and human readable stuff. I think the fact that it's a distro maintained by so few is an advantage since I'm the only person maintaining my own system.

After having read your comment and spent an hour or so listening to the Grateful Dead, and considering their views about how ideas should be free to circulate, I have to wonder if I wasn't wrong when I thought it was off-topic.

After having read your comment and spent an hour or so listening to the Grateful Dead, and considering their views about how ideas should be free to circulate, I have to wonder if I wasn't wrong when I thought it was off-topic.

The Linux Format magazine chose the best linux distro 2012 in the Oct issue, it didn't even say a word of Slackware. I don't know why. But I don't care and I love Slackware!
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I still listen to the fortnightly tuxradar podcast which is also done by the LXF guys (though of late I've been considering dropping it as it's not what it used to be). They haven't even given a passing mention in their 'news' section to the release of Slack 14.0. But it's not surprising, they're just playing to their audience: which I guess is going to be predominately Ubuntain.

Slackware's great - it works better than all other distros I've tried. I find it utterly reliable, and it's easily customised to be what you want or need it to be. It's what I thought Linux would be like when I first thought about trying Linux.